This book uses MATLAB to analyze various applications in mathematics and mechanics. The authors hope to encourage engineers and scientists to consider this modern programming environment as an excellent alternative to languages such as FORTRAN or C++. MATLAB embodies an interactive environment with a high level programming language supporting both numerical and graphical commands for two- and three-dimensional data analysis and presentation. The wealth of intrinsic
mathematical commands to handle matrix algebra, Fourier series, differential equtions, and complex-valued functions makes simple calculator operations of many tasks previously requiring subroutine libraries with cumbersome argument lists.